1617 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.. August 27, 1896.
REV. MARY BAKER EDDY.
My Dear Mother: I feel that our note of immediate reply to your letter did not begin to express my true feelings of gratitude for your great gift to our work in Philadelphia. Symbolically it is of the richest and most far reaching significance, and I feel a deep assurance that, in his (Dr.'s) coming, the work will receive an impulse Godward that will aid in energizing "wholesome spiritual warfare," and bringing to light the Christ-Principle,—and I pray God that you may reap a rich harvest of joy in good works, as further fruitage of the Philadelphia platoons. I am but a babe in Truth's great infinite revealings, but I am earnestly striving to love Good with all my heart. I know that I desire to see how to "meet the spectral at every point," and to become more and more like unto you, and like unto God.
Your loving child,
